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Word: janitor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hang-fire Walker-Allyson honeymoon is what keeps the picture going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...revitalized one paper before. A Baptist minister's son, he spent 18 months in France with the A.E.F., worked his way through the University of Oregon's Journalism School (whose dean told him he would never make a newspaperman). Married while still in college, Ep Hoyt did janitor work in churches, sports correspondence for the Oregonian, spent summer vacations lum-berjacking in eastern Oregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ep Hoyt & the Hussy | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...America's past: Robert Ross Wason (rhymes with ah son), 57, president of Manhattan's Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. (cranes, hoists, safety valves, etc.). Born a poor boy in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wason got his first job at eleven, worked his way through high school as a janitor. After graduation he worked as a longshoreman, blacksmith's helper and dock hand, and cub reporter on the Ashtabula Independent at $15 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: The Glacier Moves | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Before leaving his temporary quarters, every man must deposit his key with the janitor in Stoughton, and must return any sheets, blankets, or towels that may have been issued to him. Room contracts must be signed at the Bursar's Office (Lehman Hall) before keys to new rooms may be obtained from the super-intendents of the dormitories to which the students are being assigned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen, Veterans Will Quit Yard Dorms | 10/2/1945 | See Source »

...left school at 14, after fisticuffs with the teacher, to become a U.P. janitor and call boy. He had no boyhood to speak of, only work. His unboylike ambition was some day to become president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The U.P. Trail | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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